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Elm wood Elm in boatbuilding: John Constable, Boat-Building Near Flatford Mill, 1815 (landscape with hybrid elms Ulmus × hollandica [11]) English longbow of elm. Elm wood is valued for its interlocking grain, and consequent resistance to splitting, with significant uses in wagon-wheel hubs, chair seats, and coffins.
Wych elm wood is prized by craftsmen for its colouring, its striking grain, its 'partridge-breast' or 'catspaw' markings, and when worked, its occasional iridescent greenish sheen or 'bloom'. The bosses on old trees produce the characteristic fissures and markings of 'burr elm' wood. [38]
Elm. American elm (Ulmus americana) English elm (Ulmus procera) Rock elm (Ulmus thomasii) Slippery elm, red elm (Ulmus rubra) Wych elm (Ulmus glabra) Eucalyptus. Lyptus: Flooded gum (Eucalyptus grandis) White mahogany (Eucalyptus acmenoides) Brown mallet (Eucalyptus astringens) [6] Banglay, southern mahogany (Eucalyptus botryoides)
Ulmus americana, generally known as the American elm or, less commonly, as the white elm or water elm, [a] is a species of elm native to eastern North America. The trees can live for several hundred years. It is a very hardy species that can withstand low winter temperatures, but it is affected by Dutch elm disease.
The wood is also used for the hubs of wagon wheels, as it is very shock resistant owing to the interlocking grain. [30] The wood, as 'red elm', is sometimes used to make bows for archery. The yoke of the Liberty Bell, a symbol of the independence of the United States, was made from slippery elm. [citation needed]
Johnstown Elm in Johnstown, NY. 196 inch circumference, 85 feet tall, disease free in September, 2013. Largest elm in New York state, photo January 2012. (No longer standing as of October 2018.) The Johnstown Elm, in Johnstown, New York, as of September 2013 did not show any signs of Dutch elm disease. In October 2018 all that remained was a ...
Ulmus alata - winged elm, Wahoo; Ulmus crassifolia - cedar elm; Ulmus elongata - long raceme elm; Ulmus ismaelis; Ulmus mexicana - Mexican elm; Ulmus serotina - September elm; Ulmus thomasii - rock elm, cork elm; Subgenus Ulmus. U. section Foliaceae. Ulmus castaneifolia - chestnut-leafed elm, multi-nerved elm; Ulmus changii - Hangzhou elm Ulmus ...
Ulmus laevis Pall., variously known as the European white elm, [2] fluttering elm, spreading elm, stately elm and, in the United States, the Russian elm, is a large deciduous tree native to Europe, from France [3] northeast to southern Finland, east beyond the Urals into Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and southeast to Bulgaria and the Crimea; there are also disjunct populations in the Caucasus and ...